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It's a little better after the first year, then after 2 you forgot all about it when they are your buddy! I'm worried about the time commitment but it will work out. The pup I'm getting will probably be my last. Age says I'm on the downhill slope. Funny I don't feel it!

Let well enough alone, law of natural selection.

Enjoying this thread, I pick up my new pup next Sunday. Been getting the house ready...

Sounds like it will produce two headed deer. No telling what it will do to people. I guess if both heads have racks, then maybe...

I am picking up a standard poodle pup next month. This is our second, we have an almost 9yo now. Best dog ever. Very smart, no shedding hair in the house. Getting the new pup from the same breeder. Stopped at the training facility yesterday to see about signing her up for starter puppy lessons. The plan is to see how she'll track. Our current poodle is my daughter's and she wouldn't let me take her hunting. She said people would laugh at me out with a poodle...Only those that don't know they're bred for hunting. Won't be doing the dreadlocks. http://vipoodle.org/versatile-poodles/huntingfield-poodles/

I asked my old school, 100% Italian FIL, while he was playing in a baseball game. He said "Go ask her mother". Last month our son and daughter threw us a 40th anniversary party. In laws are now 81. We all laugh at that day.

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We mowed the corn with a Swisher Predator. Took awhile but the tractor is put away for the winter and we wouldn't tow it in the salt. I need to look into the NWTF.

Weather is too good to waste. Decided to mow the corn stalks today. The corn had been pretty well eaten. Only found a few ears left. Chopped up the stalks so they can decompose for the remainder of the winter in preparation for no till planting of soybeans. Did the no till soybean planting last year over a previous sorghum plot, grew great. We had very good plots of QDMA supplied beans. Corn was expensive but was a real draw. I wish we could get corn seed through QDMA.

So sorry.

Cutco drop point, serrated edge. Made in Olean. Holds an edge better than any knife I've ever had. https://www.cutco.com/products/product.jsp?item=drop-point-knife

Went there for Antler Ice pee in October, store is still too expensive.

Perinton RV Rentals, 585 223 6433 Rented one there a couple years ago to bring a car home from Buffalo.

Looks like a nice spot and a good stand!

Hunted with over 2 feet or snow and single digit temperature, during muzzleloader a few years ago with a friend. He found them in the planted pines. They were dug in tighter than an Alabama tick. Shot 2 out of their beds with the muzzleloader. They wouldn't move.

Spent $440, but it will last all year I would buy that through the year anyway. At least I know it's not lips and buttholes.

Took in 45# during bow, now back and enjoying it. Slim sticks, mild, cheese and also banana peppers/cheese. Pepperoni. Dutch bologna, 2 kinds. Hots. Blueberry Maple sausage. All good although the pepperoni is quite hot this year and I actually ordered BBQ Slim's but got banana pepper Slim's with my name on them. I have a cold porch with a ceiling fan and dry the Slim's and pepperoni a couple days before vacuum packing.

I concur with NYBowhunter that land improvement is key. In the three and a half years of owning and improving our land the deer density and quality have made it all worthwhile. Added a pond, put in food plots, let a hay lot go to 6 foot high goldenrod. We stay out of the cedar swamp/bedding area. Results this year...

https://huntingny.com/forums/topic/54023-withcraft-science-or-snake-oil-hecs-suits/

Time for lunch in 8P...pizza lunchable. My son got a new toy for my blind. Heard a couple of shots early, quiet since. Where's the hunters?

Just be sure not to use the inflatable sheep. It might get shot.

I have a friend who has a couple of places that he uses dummies wearing his old clothes which he changes out to keep his scent. Some scaffolding in a hedge row that he has a dummy in and a chair in a food plot. He puts the dummy in the weeds when he hunts those. Says it works.

They may not say hey look at that guy in the tree, but all it takes is one doe to display body language and skirt around the tree/area to alert Mr Buck who's following her. Just my take on it. Evey little thing that makes a deer go on alert can't scare the deer out of the woods either or where would they be able to live. I keep a spare stand ready to put up if needed. I would try not to make the extra ruckus taking one down to move it during season. Or use my climber if I want to make an adjustment to location.

I have a friend who found a guy hunting out of a tree on his property. He went to the tree and the guy hollered at him to leave as he would be there all day. He left. Went home and grabbed his chainsaw and atv. Went directly back and cut the tree down with the trespasser in it. He told me that the guy jumped and ran, never came back for his stand and never saw him again. Problem solved. Not that I would suggest that you follow suit.

I always "squint" when deer are close to not make eye contact. This year I've had 3 bucks and 6 does within inches of my ladder stand. They know there is something not right but haven't spooked. Control breathing too. 6 point made this rub and dug a scrape at the base of the ladder stand after standing within 10 feet of my stand for several minutes Saturday.